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Father arrested for beating to death his daughter
A 2-year-old child has reportedly been found to have been beaten to death by her father after he originally claimed that she had fallen off a ladder at home, the Internal Security Forces said Tuesday.
The police station in Aramoun carried out investigations after the ISF called to report that a child had fallen off a ladder and died by the time she arrived at the hospital.
“In less than six hours, and as a result of intense investigations, the police station found that the child did not fall off the ladder,” a statement from the ISF reported Tuesday.
The child’s mother, identified as a Syrian national born in 1990, said the father, a Palestinian born in 1995, had beaten the daughter “about two months ago using a wooden stick.”
The father also burned the daughter with hot water while helping her shower, then hit her at 2:30 a.m. – the time it was claimed she had fallen off the ladder while he was feeding her – according to the statement.